From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A5EE25.6070801@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070724131415.45370b27@snowflake>
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Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300
> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION
>> atoms?
>
> Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include
> various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION.
>
I did say in my original mail that there are ebuilds building dynamic
DESCRIPTION variables but the my question was that does anything make
use of their dynamic nature. I think for example eix only looks at the
latest.
Regards,
Petteri
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 11:11 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 11:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2007-07-24 11:44 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-24 11:54 ` David Shakaryan
2007-07-24 12:04 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:22 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 12:26 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 13:09 ` Robert Buchholz
2007-07-24 13:18 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 13:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 13:46 ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-24 13:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 14:11 ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-24 14:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 14:46 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 13:36 ` Luca Barbato
2007-07-25 12:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-24 12:02 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:06 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-24 12:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-24 12:18 ` Petteri Räty [this message]
2007-07-24 13:14 ` Tiziano Müller
2007-07-24 12:53 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-25 12:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-24 12:12 ` David Shakaryan
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